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Research in Progress Pages - watch this space for updates   The Contemporary Camera Groupe Exhibition, Sydney 1938 Works shown by exhibitor The table below draws together every title or description that can currently be traced. The source key is: SMH = Sydney Morning Herald review, 22 Nov 1938; DT = Daily Telegraph, 19 Nov 1938; SoL = Newton, Shades of Light (1988), ch. 11 and footnotes; AGNSW = Art Gallery of NSW collection notes; NGA = National Gallery of Australia. Exhibitor Work Description / comment Source Max Dupain The Ballerina Singled out for its Degas-like quality SMH Max Dupain Between the Idea and the Reality, Falls the Shadow (exhibit no. 7) Title from T. S. Eliot SoL fn 74 Max Dupain Portraits and nudes Surrealist vein; “subtle portraiture” (SMH) SoL; SMH Olive Cotton Papyrus (1938) One of her 11 exhibits NGA Olive Cotton Plum blossom (1937) Shown in David Jones window AGNSW Olive Cotton Landscapes Simple, sincere and competently done SMH Laurence Le Guay Mechanisation of art Shown in David Jones window AGNSW Laurence Le Guay Still Life Reviewer noted greater control than his earlier bravura SMH; DT Laurence Le Guay Street Scene As above SMH Cecil Bostock Phenomena (c. 1938) Pure abstract; in window; now AGNSW (gift of Max Dupain 1980) AGNSW; SoL Cecil Bostock The Quest A cat threading between fence posts SMH Cecil Bostock Octogenarian Adventure An old man’s feet at the edge of an escalator SMH Cecil Bostock Sparkling Cadence Praised as a good landscape SMH Cecil Bostock Transient Praised as a good landscape SMH Cecil Bostock Large prints On newly fashionable cold-tone and glossy papers SoL Harold Cazneaux Industry Singled out as appealing SMH Harold Cazneaux Aerial antics A “rather forced modern piece”; print held by NLA SoL fn 73 Harold Cazneaux Landscapes Reviewer disliked an etched-effect printing technique SMH; SoL George J. Morris Bromoil transfers Large prints of European travels from Leica negatives SoL Douglas Annand Watercolours and oils With Dodd, filled two panels for contrast SMH Douglas Annand Designs for New York World’s Fair booklet   SoL fn 75 A. E. Dodd Watercolours and oils With Annand, two panels SMH Witts, Parer, Buckle Untitled Described only as pictures of interest SMH Russell Roberts — No works recorded —   Return to main page for The Contemporary Camera Groupe